Ai Weiwei, an internationally well-known Chinese artist; Wen Tao, his friend and assistant; Zhang Jingsong, his cousin and driver; Hu Mingfen, his accountant, have ...
Xinna and Uiles, the wife and son of ethnic Mongolian human rights activist Hada, have been formally arrested. Hada is currently in a secret prison and has been ...
Mao Hengfeng, a Chinese human rights defender, is being held incommunicado at Shanghai City Prison Hospital. She is at risk of torture and other ill-treatment. ...
Ni Yulan, housing rights activist and former lawyer, and her husband Dong Jiqin have been formally arrested on charges of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble ...
Human rights lawyers in China are under siege from a state bent on imposing absolute control on them. These lawyers are threatened with suspension of their licences ...
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. UPDATE. Index: ASA 17/031/2011. 30 June 2011. Against the law: Crackdown on China's human rights lawyers deepens: Update on Background. ...
A Hong Kong man, Robert Shan Shiao-may, and Lien Sung-ching, of Taiwan, are facing execution in mainland China. The Supreme People's Court (SPC) in Beijing is now ...